ECETI Ranch is asking for your help to fight discrimination from County Officials

ECETI Ranch is asking for your help to fight discrimination from CountyOfficials.

ECETI Ranch is currently facing challenges from the county to stay opento our friends and family for skywatching and small spiritualgatherings. We have been fighting this battle for over a year and faceddemonstrated discrimination, bias and harassment from the land usecommission and planning department of Klickitat County because ourviews are different than those shared by county officials. In additionto land use challenges we have also been told that none of ourbuildings (including our main residence) are allowed and/or permittedand we do not have the right to reside in any building on the property(regardless of necessary permits on file). We are also a working farmand committed to creating a sustainable lifestyle as a model for a moresustainable way of living.

As a result of these ongoing challenges, we have had to hire anattorney specializing in these matters to represent us in this process.We have a court date scheduled for June. The legal fees for this battleare mounting and at this time we are not able to meet those financialneeds as it has drained our available resources. We have been told thatour legal fees are estimated to be $15,000 in order to resolve allaspects of these challenges. Our legal team has advised that we havea solid case and demonstrated bias from county officials but that it isnot possible to fight this battle without the financial resources. Weare confident we will be successful with financial contributions fromour friends to make this possible.

We are asking for support from our friends and ECETI family to allow usto continue this very important work.

We have been in existence for 25 years as a non-profit organization andcontinue to offer a variety of events both onsite and online, many ofwhich are free to the public. All other activities are on a donationbasis as we are a non-profit organization. We have never asked for thistype of support and we hesitate to do so now in light of the currenteconomic and social unrest being experienced all around us but we haveno choice than to reach out to each of you for assistance. Any amounthelps....

This work is more important now than ever and it is through yoursupport that we can continue to be of service to those that are on thepath to self mastery and awakening.